House O' Sullivans

  The first Mountain Monday of May with the ladies. Zeke played on the Wasatch Charter School ultimate frisbee team this spring. Hallee has played the past two seasons but since she sprained her ankle during basketball a couple of months ago, she was still on the injured reserve list. Hallee, Sean and I took an impromptu afternoon adventure, exploring the flooded Sugar House Park and Hidden Hollow area. After our epic snowfall (between 200 and 300% of normal) the spring run-off is voluminous. Hallee and Sean with Parley's Creek raging in the background. There was literally no water here last year at the end of the summer. Sean in the Hidden Hollow area in Sugarhouse. This is the pond in Sugar House Park--completely overflowing its normal bounds. Water was backed up because it couldn't flow under the road through the culvert fast enough. On May 4th, Kimberly was sealed in the Draper Temple. Later that day we gathered at Wheeler Farm to celebrate.  We organized a flash mob to ...

About 15 years ago, right after I'd joined the Sullivan family, Casey told me that his little brother, Sean, had made the following goals: "Eat more chocolate" and "get by." The past couple of months have been those kind of months with those kinds of goals. Sick of the quarantine, we started May out with a COVID-breakout. Sophie and Hallee had a sleepover in the tent in the backyard with a neighbor friend, Hazel, then we had cousin Jake come over for a multi-day sleepover, and then Lindy and Zeke joined the Goebels for a few days. Social distancing be gone!  Our backyard Cinco de Mayo celebration with rice, beans, homemade pico de gallo, grape Fanta (a REAL splurge around here) and a party complete with Mexican music and dancing!  Lindy at one of Mary's neighbor's houses in Kaysville for some baby bunny petting. Zeke snuggling the baby bunnies! Sophie's teacher, Arthur Morris, gifted her two Budgies--Mango and Skittles. H...